Do NOT use the Google Web Accelerator

Using Google's new Web Accelerator can do bad things like delete your e-mail, remove movies from your Netflix queue, etc. Here is some text that I didn't write about it:

The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages loading faster (since they've already been pre-loaded behind the scenes). Here's the problem: Google is essentially clicking every link on the page -- including links like "delete this" or "cancel that." And to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations. So, if you have a "Are you sure you want to delete this?" Javascript confirmation behind that "delete" link, Google ignores it and performs the action anyway.

So there you have it folks. Don't do it... instead get broadband. Here's some more info on what's going on, and if your are a web developer how to prevent Google's Web Accelerator from causing havoc on your web applications. [ via Boing Boing ]